{"id":4702,"date":"2012-04-18T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2012-04-18T16:21:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T21:21:17","slug":"amazon-vs-best-buy-a-tale-of-two-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/amazon-vs-best-buy-a-tale-of-two-retailers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon vs. Best Buy: a Tale of Two Retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/amazon_vs_best_buy_a_tale_of_two_retailers.php\">Dan Frommer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/amazon_vs_best_buy_a_tale_of_two_retailers.php\"><p>A look at the companies&rsquo; growth rates tells the story well: While Amazon has grown sales by 41%, 40% and 28% the past three years, Best Buy&rsquo;s fiscal year sales growth rates have been 2%, 0%, and 10%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The surprising thing to me is that, at least through 2011, Best Buy still had more revenue than Amazon. Off-hand, I think everyone I know&mdash;including my grandmother&mdash;spends more at Amazon each year. I bought books from Amazon before ever setting foot in a Best Buy (because there was then no local one). Now I buy books, digital content, cloud services, hard drives and other electronics, sporting goods, and even soap, vanilla, and cookware from Amazon. The last time I shopped at Best Buy was a few years ago when I had a gift certificate. That&rsquo;s when I noticed that they no longer have much of a music section but have a whole rack of iTunes gift cards in different styles.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Frommer: A look at the companies&rsquo; growth rates tells the story well: While Amazon has grown sales by 41%, 40% and 28% the past three years, Best Buy&rsquo;s fiscal year sales growth rates have been 2%, 0%, and 10%. The surprising thing to me is that, at least through 2011, Best Buy still had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4704,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}